Amie has been having nightmares about a dinosaur coming into the bedroom at night. It has spurred us to investigate whether she understands the difference between what is real and what is not, or “fake”. It is a good idea – we agree with several child developmental specialists – to make sure she does understand. …
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Tadpoles Also Have Hands and Feet
Amie took special care with this one: it’s for a friend who is ill. We talked in advance about the plan to put two figures on the page, and how it would be best to turn the page horizontally (landscape) so they would fit. She began with the head of the left figure, taking care …
Tadpoles Smile Too!
Amie has been drawing her tadpoles consistently, but for one major change. A week ago she started drawing their mouths underneath, that is, outside the head. Consistently. I asked her one day, when she was about to put down the mouth: “Amie, look, where is Mama’s mouth? Is it inside my face or outside?” I …
Amie Plays the Memory Game
Turns out Baba is just as much a softie as I am. When we went to bed after yesterday’s ordeal, I found Amie had finally fallen asleep in her own little bed. We lay there on our big bed for a minute or two, then I whispered: “I wish she were here with us…” He …
Live Blogging: Amie wants Mama
I’m sitting in the living room, it’s 9:30 pm. And I am listening to Amie screaming that she wants Mama to lie next to her and that she wants to go see Mama. DH has been ill for a week so he has been sleeping in the guest room/study and has also not been putting …
Big Screen TV and Beads
We were on the phone with my parents-in-law and I or DH made a passing reference to watching movies on a big screen tv when at our friends’ place in New York. Amie had been eating her O’s peacefully (more or less), but when she heard that, she piped up: “We’re gonna need a big …
Manush House finished, entirely (*) out of trash
In the meantime the Manush House is finished. I decided not to glue the bathroom/kitchen and the staircase onto a cardboard sheet. It would make it more difficult to move the doll house around and take it places (if ever Amie wants to do that). Here’s the whole house (so far), with some of the …
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Manush Bari finally finished (almost)
Some scissor work on the IKEA catalog and the Manush kitchen and bathroom are fully equipped and ready for their new occupants. But where are they? Oh, they’re at the zoo. Yes, there are even curtains! What remains is fixing the whole thing – kitchen/bath unit and staircase – together onto a large cardboard sheet …
Zoo-ing in the New Year
Happy New York*, Everyone! Amie went to bed a bit later after a sumptuous feast of Indian take-out. DH and I watched a crummy movie over a crummy internet connection – it felt like our old graduate student days! Only Amie woke up twice with nightmares. Today it is snowing again, of the kind in …
The holidays and progress on the Manush Bari
We’re not really into big festivities round here – it comes with being far away from family, and Amie isn’t into presents and all that (yet). We spent some lovely days with friends in NYC. They’re into big get-togethers with hour-long conversations, heaps of good food and frequent bursts of laughter any time. You find …
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